On July 16, 2018, Xing Wu has successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Essays on Competition in Health Care Markets".

On July 16, 2018, Nam Ho has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "FPGA-based Reconfigurable Cache Mapping Schemes: Design and Optimization".

On July 4 - 6, 2018, the 5th European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA 2018) will take place at the HNF in Paderborn.

On July 2, 2018, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Fidler and Dr. Brenton Walker will give a talk about "Performance Bounds for Multi-Server Systems with Synchronization Constraints" in the context of subproject C4 of SFB 901.

On June 22, 2018, Prof. Dr. Mohammad Saifur Rahman (Purdue University) will give a talk about "Shared Prosperity (or Lack Thereof) in the Sharing Economy" in the context of the SFB 901.

On June 13, 2018, Dr. Gero Herkenrath (Trusted Shops GmbH) give a talk about "Dealing with Trust - Improving a business's reputation with Trusted Shops" in the context of the SFB 901. Moreover, Dominik Gutt and Dr. Behnud Mir Djawadi from SFB 901 will present some results on „Reputation in OTF-Markets“.

On June 13, 2018, the SFB is being visited by the Trusted Shops GmbH.

On May 4, 2018, Darius Schlangenotto has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Consumer Responses to Paid Search - Empirical Evidence from a Bricks-and-Mortar Retailer".